These days are being busy in the ranks of Instagram. Although the photographic social network is part of the conglomerate of companies that Facebook He has under his command, he kept the addresses of all the departments after the purchase. However, this week CEOs have resigned of Instagram for holding different positions with Facebook leader Mark Zuckerberg.
A user has found a new function that is being incorporated into the social network Instagram. It is an option that allows share the location history that Instagram saves on its users to Facebook. In this way, all the information collected by an app would pass to the rest of the services belonging to Mark Zuckerberg's company.
A controversial feature that puts Instagram and Facebook in check
The functions incorporated into a service they always cause controversy. But the news related to users and their privacy within an application are much more controversial. On this occasion, those of Mark Zuckerberg have incorporated a new tool to Instagram by which location history data that are collected when we have active the Location on Instagram will be shared to reinforce the content that Facebook shows us.
This idea would be fine, as long as the user is explicitly explained what services they are using, at what times and with which platforms this information is being shared. The problem is that location data would be collected even when we were not using the appIn other words, both applications would have a continuous flow of locations.
Permite que los Productos de Facebook, incluidos Instagram y Messenger, construyan y utilicen un historial de ubicaciones precisas recibidas a través de los Servicios de ubicación en sus dispositivos.
Sin embargo, no todo acaba ahí. Un gran número de usuarios ha reivindicado su derecho a la información en diferentes redes sociales, por lo que un portavoz de la red social ha salido a defender lo que parece una futura y polémica función que veremos, al parecer, muy pronto:
We have not made any updates to our location settings. […] We often work on ideas that may evolve over time or ultimately go unpublished. Instagram does not currently store location history. […] We will keep people updated on any changes to our location settings in the future.
